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Subject: Re: Why troff?
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Date: Fri, 6-Feb-87 19:43:31 EST
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Scott Simpson wrote in the discussion of troff/TEX:
> Troff is documented but not nearly as well.

True, but there are (at least) 3 recent books on troff that
can help.  I'll mention the one I co-authored first...

1.  troff Typesetting for UNIX(tm) Systems, Sandra L. Emerson and
    Karen Paulsell, Prentice-Hall

2.  UNIX(tm) NROFF/TROFF A User's Guide, Kevin P. Roddy, Holt
    Rinehart and Wilson

3.  The author is Narain Gehani, and I think the book is called
    Document Formatting on UNIX Systems.

I can't really describe the 2 other books; one person who has seen
all three told me that we spend a lot more time describing all the
troff primitives and their interactions, Gehani focusses more on -mm,
and Roddy on -ms and -me modifications.


Karen Paulsell